At Paris Air Show, Orders Come Flying In

Jun 17, 2013 4:29 pm ET

By Doug Cameron

Planes are the talk of the town this week in Paris and orders are landing fast.

Drizzly weather isn’t dampening spirits at the 50th Paris International Air Show, underway at Le Bourget, which organizers say will have a record number of exhibitors. And plane-makers are on track to secure plenty of orders, too, with Airbus, Boeing Co., Bombardier Inc., Embraer SA and others duking it out for commercial airline customers.

The show was meant to be all about orders for big wide-body planes, but that’s only proven to be half right. And many of the big buyers are far from household names.

Case in point: Embraer logged 100 firm orders for its E2 jet from SkyWest Inc. which operates aircraft on behalf of the regional units of network carriers like Delta Air Lines. The St. George, Utah-based carrier has more planes on order than any other. Meanwhile Airbus secured an order for 20 A380s from Germany’s Doric Lease Corp., the first for the superjumbo from a leasing company and a big leg up in reaching the plane-maker’s target of shifting 25 this year.

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